CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio ranks in the top 10 states where a car is most likely to be stolen, according to national statistics. But those stats might not include data from the state's largest cities.

Each year, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program gathers violent crime and property crime statistics from law enforcement agencies nationwide. The program released its completed report of 2015 statistics, "Crime in the United States 2015," in late 2016.

It's important to note, however, that the FBI statistics are self-reported by law enforcement agencies - primarily sheriff's offices - across the country. That means unless individual police departments report to the FBI, Ohio's largest cities are not necessarily being included in the statistics.

In Ohio, the automobile theft rate of change between 2014 and 2015 was about a 5 percent decrease - 18,109 vehicle thefts compared to 17,229 the following year, the statistics show. Even with the dip, Ohio ranks seventh out of the 50 states in highest auto theft rates.

To parse out the auto theft statistics from five of Ohio's largest cities (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo), cleveland.com looked at the 2014 and 2015 end-of-year statistical reports and crime statistics from the Ohio Department of Public Safety's Office of Criminal Justice Services. Here's what was found.

Cleveland tops the list

While Cleveland is no longer the largest city in Ohio, it still has the highest number of vehicles stolen among the big cities. Cleveland's numbers are not hugely different compared to the city in the second spot, Columbus, and they decreased between 2014 and 2015.

Jane Morice, cleveland.com

Discrepancies between city reports, state statistics

Of the five cities examined, Toledo is the only city whose police department's annual report and the state's Office of Criminal Justice's data show the same number of stolen vehicles - 949.

There are noticeable differences, however, in the numbers reported in the four other cities and what the state's data shows. The discrepancies listed below are only from 2014 because that year's numbers are complete and available on the Office of Criminal Justice Services' site. The 2015 totals are not yet available from the state.

Jane Morice, cleveland.com

The inconsistencies between the data can probably be easily explained away with state submission deadlines and slight miscounts.